With baseball’s general managers meeting this week in Orlando, the rumor faucet has been twisted to the fully on position, although it may still take some time until the hot rumors start flowing from the spigot. Here’s a look around at what’s being said, and how much of it actually holds water…

DAVID ROBERTSON:@Yankees, the official Twitter account of the 27-time world champions, has had four tweets this week. One was the news that Robinson Cano, Curtis Granderson, and Hiroki Kuroda declined their qualifying offers and are full-on free agents now. One was a retweet of an MLB contest to win a CC Sabathia autographed baseball. One was a chance to meet Mariano Rivera. Then there was this…

The Yankees have more than a million Twitter followers, and among the people who saw Brian Cashman’s ringing non-endorsement of David Robertson as the 2014 closer in the Bronx are probably a few agents who, well, let’s go to an artist’s rendering.

Even if the Yankees do not sign a reliever, Cashman’s public statement drives up the price on relievers such as Grant Balfour, Joaquin Benoit, Joe Nathan, Fernando Rodney and Brian Wilson. Perhaps that is the point — heighten the market for rival teams while proceeding with Robertson as the in-house option.

If the Yankees spend big in the bullpen, they can pretty much forget about addressing other needs — catcher, starting rotation, Robinson Cano or his replacement — while staying under $189 million in payroll.

Remember, in the fall of 2005, Cashman talked about how he was prepared to have Bubba Crosby be the Yankees’ starting center fielder. In January 2006, New York signed Johnny Damon.

It’s highly possible that Cashman is running the reverse version of that play. There is no other good reason that someone who has done his job for so long would show his hand so publicly at this stage of the offseason, knowing full well what the consequences would be in the marketplace.

Arroyo has led the National League in home runs allowed two of the past three seasons, including 32 gopher balls this year. San Francisco was home to the fewest home runs in the major leagues in 2013 — 84 — while 167 homers were hit in Minnesota, a fairly average figure that ranks below the 199 in Cincinnati.

The greatest reason for Arroyo to appeal to the Twins is that he has averaged 210 innings per season over the last nine years, with 202 innings pitched each of the last two campaigns. Twins starters worked only 880 innings in 2013, the fewest in the American League.

Staying in the National League in San Francisco probably would be a better idea for Arroyo, but if that courtship hasn’t really gotten off the ground, Minnesota is a fine fit.

Well, of course the Mariners want to bring in better players. They just lost 91 games in a season in which their primary outfielders were Raul Ibanez, Michael Suanders and Mike Morse. Seattle ranked 12th in the American League in scoring, and dead last with a .237 team batting average. But would these better players actually make the Mariners better, and/or actually play for Seattle?

Kemp, signed through 2019, would not have a choice about playing for the Mariners if he gets traded there, but there’s the issue of actually trading for him. A Triple Crown contender when healthy, Kemp is the kind of player worth trading a top prospect to get — but how much more than that would the Dodgers demand? Is it worth making a trade to pay someone $128 million over the next six years when you could have Ellsbury for $142 over seven years and only give up a second-round draft pick to do it? Just what is the status of Kemp’s ankle, and why would the Dodgers be willing to trade him instead of Andre Ethier? These are questions Jack Zduriencik would have to have good answers to in order to make a trade for Kemp.

Turning 37 in April, Beltran should be more interested in going to a team that is in position to contend immediately than Seattle, which has its work cut out and then some in a division with the A’s, Rangers, and Angels.

Cruz has eight home runs in 172 career at-bats at Safeco Field, where he has hit .238. He should know as well as anyone that a giant ballpark does not suit him well as a power-hitting outfielder whose defensive prowess is less than ideal.

Jacoby Ellsbury (AP Photo)

And that brings it back to Ellsbury, a plus defender who does not rely on power and whose on-base ability — he has a .350 career OBP — would be transformative to the Seattle lineup. As a bonus, he’s from Oregon and went to Oregon State, so the Mariners are the closest thing Ellsbury has to a hometown team. That’s not a real selling point for anything but tickets, but considering that Seattle has dropped out of the top 10 in the American League in attendance the past two seasons after 17 straight years in the top 10, it should mean something to the team, if not to Ellsbury.

Well, Crasnick reports the Mariners’ reported interest in Ellsbury is “overblown.” Presumably because it makes too much sense?